Digital by Default

Tag: Government

  • Head of Innovation

    I was reading this interview with John Pullinger this afternoon. John is the National Statistician and as such the boss of my bosses, bosses, boss. I thought it did a good job at getting across how seriously the organisation is taking our ‘digital transformation’ but also how much there is to do and the scale…

  • CorridorCamp16

    aka #UKGC16 I have a little confession. I am terrible at BarCamps. Really bad at them. I have attended more than my share of them over the years and 100% believe they are brilliant, mind-altering, status quo challenging necessities for our community. I am just rubbish at them. Saturday was my sixth Govcamp I think — I…

  • More Tigger than Tiger

    Andrew Greenway has written an interesting post in defence of the ‘senior civil service’. I don’t have much to say directly about what he has written — my experience with the SCS is primarily limited to those I know at ONS and a few I’ve known and know at GDS. Even with that narrow a perspective I…

  • The #jukesies 2015

    Blogger of the year It felt like this was the year that blogging in one format or another returned in a big way — no small part in fact to Medium. In and around the digital transformation work going on in Government a number of bloggers emerged and I particularly enjoyed the writings of Andrew Besford (DWP) and…

  • We need to talk about…Service Assessments

    Pretty much everybody involved in UK [central] Government digital work these days knows about the GDS Service Assessments. Created to provide a level of peer review and assurance around compliance with the Digital by Default Service Standard they were envisioned as a way of building trust in the previously utterly untrusted — Government technology project delivery. Almost…